Written answers
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Department of Justice and Equality
- Services for People with Disabilities
82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives she proposes to take to ensure that deaf citizens' rights to Irish Sign Language interpreters is protected in order to allow them... - Coroners Service
83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how unclaimed deceased remains are treated by the State; the laws which govern the burial of deceased persons whose remains are unclaimed by... - Prison Accommodation Provision
84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of developing a women’s open prison facility. [12934/16] - Refugee Resettlement Programme
85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will take a leadership role internationally in Ireland's action on the refugee crisis by urgently sending a delegation to Calais and... - Courts Service Data
87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judgment mortgages applied for and granted in each year from 2010 to 2015; the total value of such judgment mortgages; and if she... - National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan
88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to issues raised by the Irish Deaf Society (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13505/16] - Public Sector Staff Data
89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have left the public service in her Department in each of the past five years to date, either by way of natural... - Criminal Prosecutions Data
90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the 29 victim requests for reviews of the Director of Public Prosecution’s decision not to prosecute since the implementation... - Crime Data
91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions and convictions for rape and sexual assault and the number of these convictions that resulted in a non-custodial... - Deaths in Prison
92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have died while in the custody of the Irish Prison Service in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date, including the... - Inspector of Prisons Reports
94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of recommendations set out in the report of an investigation by the Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly,... - Irish Prison Service
96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the changes that have been made within the Irish Prison Service since the death of a person (details supplied) with regard to treating suicidal... - Drugs in Prisons
97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she is taking to prevent the influx of drugs and alcohol into the prison system. [12515/16] - Garda Resources
99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the new regional support unit within An Garda Síochána, including the resources and the number of personnel she will... - Criminal Legal Aid
100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to expand on the programme for Government pledge to clamp down on potential abuses of the criminal legal aid scheme; the number of times this... - Ministerial Correspondence
101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times she has had contact with the Garda Commissioner by telephone, in person or by any other method of communication since the... - Departmental Reports
102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish an inquiry report by Mr. Justice Frank Clarke on how the Garda Ombudsman investigators conduct their work; the date on which... - Prison Education Service
103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the education or literacy needs of persons are assessed when they enter the custody of the Irish Prison Service. [12522/16] - Judicial Reviews
105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of other jurisdictions developing problem solving courts where judges review the progress of appropriate convicted offenders... - Court Orders
106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to investigate the behaviour of members of An Garda Síochána during an eviction (details supplied), specifically gardaí permitting... - Garda Stations
107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will commence the review of the dispersal of Garda stations; who will conduct it and make the decision; the criteria it will use in... - Refugee Resettlement Programme
108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to speed up the resettlement of refugees in Ireland through relocation and resettlement programmes given that Ireland has... - Traveller Projects Funding
109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of funding Travellers' initiatives by 10%; 20% and 25%. [12556/16] - Garda Expenditure
110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the full year cost of recruiting and training 100 additional members of An Garda Síochána in 2017. [12557/16] - Garda Recruitment
112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the intake of Garda Síochána recruits at Templemore College during each of the years 2012 to 2016 to date and the projected intake for... - Irish Prison Service
114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average annual cost of an available staffed prison place. [12562/16] - Prison Committals
115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons imprisoned for sentences of less than six months in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and the number of these that... - Prison Facilities
116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the prisons in which slopping out still takes place; and the cost of ending this practice in each prison. [12564/16] - Garda Síochána Inspectorate
117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current annual budget and annual rental costs of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate. [12565/16] - Civil Legal Aid
118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of reducing the application fee for civil legal aid to €100 and to €50. [12572/16] - Courts Service Administration
119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of establishing a pilot specialist court to deal solely with applications for orders under the Domestic Violence Act and to reduce the... - Courts Service
120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of the assessment by the Courts Service of the availability of suitable accommodation in the commercial market to address... - Probation and Welfare Service
122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of ensuring the Probation and Welfare Service provides expert child welfare and safety assessments to the courts in family law matters... - Commencement of Legislation
124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she has not yet signed the Commencement Order to give effect to sections 10 to 13, inclusive, and 17, 39, 40, 41 and 42 of the Garda... - Penal Policy Review Group
125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to give a clear commitment to a coherent and evidence informed penal policy grounded in crime data analysis which is made public. [12637/16] - Penal Policy Review Group Report
126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when she will implement the recommendations of the cross-agency strategic review on penal policy; and if she will make a statement on the... - Crime Prevention
127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will develop a discrete strategy for young adults of 18 to 24 years of age who are in conflict with the law, with particular emphasis on... - Parole Boards
128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to establish a fully independent Parole Board on a statutory basis. [12640/16] - Prisoner Complaints Procedures
129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce an independent prisoner complaints mechanism. [12641/16] - UN Conventions Ratification
130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ratify the optional protocol to the convention against torture. [12642/16] - Departmental Operations
131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to develop a research capacity within her Department and relevant agencies to support innovative best practice and evidence based... - Crime Data
132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce the publication of crime data and analysis on a regular basis. [12644/16] - Sentencing Policy
133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources she has allocated to the sentencing information project. [12645/16] - Courts Service
135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish community courts. [12647/16] - Departmental Funding
136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of funding given to restorative justice initiatives during each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and the cost of increasing these by... - Probation and Welfare Service
137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of community sanction schemes in place; her plans to ensure consistency in their availability, use and operation. [12649/16] - Juvenile Offenders
138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children detained in Wheatfield place of detention during each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and her plans to end this... - Youth Justice Strategy
140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current level of investment in prevention and early intervention strategies to reduce number of children coming in to contact with the law;... - Prisoner Data
141. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reduce the prison population to a safe custody maximum of 2,850. [12657/16] - Departmental Programmes
142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources she allocated to the community return programme; and her plans to expand it and the categories and number of prisoners inelligible... - Crime Levels
143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase standard remission from 25% to 33% and to introduce enhanced remission of up to 50%. [12659/16] - Prisoner Health
144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to conduct a whole system review of prison health services. [12660/16] - Prison Facilities
146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the mental health services available in prisons; if on admission prisoners have a thorough mental health assessment as part of initial health... - Drugs in Prisons
149. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if prisoners who wish to address their addictions have access to drug treatment services; and if so, the treatments available to them. [12666/16] - Prisoner Health
150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she continuously monitors infectious diseases in regular prison health monitoring and inspection mechanisms, including human immunodeficiency... - Prison Accommodation Standards
151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to work towards single cell accommodation as the best-practice norm across in prisons. [12668/16] - Prisoner Health
153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to a daily minimum of 12 hours out of cell activity for all prisoners, with an emphasis on education, training and work. [12670/16] - Prison Security
154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will end the use of prolonged isolation of prisoners as a response to prisoner safety concerns. [12671/16] - Prison Service
156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish the Irish Prison Service as a fully independent prisons authority on a statutory basis with the director general as... - Prisoner Welfare
157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to an interdepartmental and inter-agency strategy for supporting children with a parent in prison. [12674/16] - Departmental Strategies
158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will implement the Irish Prison Service's families and imprisonment strategy; the level of resourcing she has allocated to this; and if... - Prison Accommodation
159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide an open prison for female prisoners and to increase open prison provision for male prisoners. [12676/16] - Prisoner Releases
160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to remove exclusions from temporary release for all categories of prisoner. [12677/16] - Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the post-release reintegration service and supports available to prisoners and the level of resources she has allocated to them. [12679/16] - Probation and Welfare Service Data
163. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding she has allocated to the Probation Service. [12680/16] - Juvenile Offenders
164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend expungement provisions in the Children Act 2001 to offences committed up to 21 years of age. [12681/16] - Prisoner Data
165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in prison custody. [12693/16] - Fines Data
166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of committals for non-payment of fines in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date; and the mechanism she is using to monitor the... - Departmental Reports
167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of findings from the Law Reform Commission and the strategic review of penal policy that mandatory and presumptive sentencing... - Prison Accommodation Standards
168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to prioritise Ireland’s human rights obligations by prioritising the development of smaller local prisons and open and low-security... - Special Criminal Court Establishment
169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights' concluding observations on Ireland under the July 2014 International Covenant... - Coroners Service
170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will introduce legislation to update the coroner system and to ensure mechanisms of investigation into deaths in prison custody are... - Sentencing Policy
172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources she has allocated to integrated sentence management in prisons to deliver prisoner centred rehabilitation. [12700/16] - White Collar Crime
173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the use of the equitable remedy of disgorgement as a supplementary measure to possible criminal penalties in white collar crime... - Criminal Assets Bureau
174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Criminal Assets Bureau seizes assets acquired through white collar crime; and the level of such assets seized to date. [12702/16] - Immigration Status
175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 17 May 2016, to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Legislative Process RIA
176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to publish the regulatory impact analysis put together by the interdepartmental working group on proposed corporate manslaughter legislation.... - Legal Proceedings
177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions brought under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997... - Direct Provision System
179. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for the most recent figures available for people in direct provision, including the number of children; the average period of time asylum seekers... - Intelligence Sharing
180. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the operation of the financial intelligence unit in the Seychelles and its effect on Ireland; and her views on it employing former... - Garda Deployment
181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of gardaí in Rathfarnham and Tallaght Garda stations since 2010, in tabular form. [12778/16] - Garda Data
182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of rank numbers in the Garda Síochána for the years 2010 to 2015, in tabular form. [12781/16] - Garda Reserve
183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers in the Garda Reserve from 2010 to 2015 in tabular form; the numbers of new recruits to the Garda Reserve in each of those years; the... - Garda Deployment
185. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the operating hours and numbers of gardaí based at Naas, Leixlip, Clane, Carbury, Celbridge and Maynooth Garda stations for each year... - Visa Applications
186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of an application for a volunteer visa by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12803/16] - Garda Station Closures
187. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will re-open a Garda station (details supplied) in County Kerry given its geographical isolation; and if she will make a statement on the... - Immigration Controls
188. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused leave to land or permission to enter here at the border with Northern Ireland and their nationalities between May... - Direct Provision System
189. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to detail each of the 90 fully implemented recommendations of the McMahon working group report to Government on improvements to the protection... - UN Conventions Ratification
190. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was signed by the Government on 30 March 2007; and if... - Departmental Contracts Data
191. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how many companies have expressed an interest in the new speed camera contract; the amount the new contract is worth; the number of hours... - Courts Service
192. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the mileage a company (details supplied) is claiming from the State for its workers attending court; and the rate of pay it is claiming for... - Departmental Advertising Expenditure
193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money spent by her Department on media advertising from March 2011 to February 2016 showing the media organisation - newspaper,... - Departmental Programmes
194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that the Rape Crisis Network Ireland has recommended establishing and resourcing a distinct and specialist primary prevention... - Sexual Abuse Research
197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to funding a new sexual abuse and violence in Ireland study. [12925/16] - Legal Aid
200. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of ending the requirement for victims of domestic violence to make financial contributions for State-funded legal services provided by... - Legal Aid Service
201. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will broaden the remit of the Legal Aid Board to include issues related to social welfare, housing and employment. [12930/16] - Civil Legal Aid
202. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that civil legal aid is provided to borrowers or tenants in difficulty to ensure that they receive adequate legal advice and... - Legislative Programme
203. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce hate crime legislation. [12935/16] - Citizenship Applications
204. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reverse the increases in application fees for Irish citizenship. [12936/16] - Ministerial Advisers
205. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names of her advisers and their salaries. [12937/16] - Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
206. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any gardaí have ever been through disciplinary processes as a result of misuse of the covert human intelligence source scheme; and if so,... - Garda Investigations
207. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to address repeated concerns (details supplied) in the O'Higgins report regarding proper investigation by An Garda... - Garda Misconduct Allegations
208. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the development of terms of reference for the inquiry into Garda misconduct allegations made by a person (details supplied).... - Personal Insolvency Act
209. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the facility to appeal to the court the rejection of an insolvency proposal by a creditor is only available where a family home is involved;... - Garda Operations
210. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of an alleged speeding offence that was entered on the PULSE - police using leading systems effectively - system (details... - Courts Service
211. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to allow small limited companies not to engage the services of solicitors and barristers when accessing the... - Daylight Saving
212. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the European Union issues that arise with regard to the duration of summer time from March to October; if it is possible to extend summer time to... - Road Traffic Offences
214. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid to a company (details supplied) to operate speed camera vans from 2009 to date; the amount collected by the company in speeding... - Crime Data
215. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries since 2014 by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13183/16] - Garda Station Refurbishment
216. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the upgrading of Clonmel Garda station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13184/16] - Garda Commissioner Travel
217. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda Commissioner has discussed the reasons for, and outcomes of, her visit to Washington in March 2016; if she informed the Minister... - Refugee Resettlement Programme
218. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the Refugee Act 1996 to enable persons in refugee camps fleeing persecution to initiate their asylum applications prior to... - Crime Investigation
220. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to whom instances of female genital mutilation should be reported; if there is a mechanism for doing so anonymously; and if she will make a... - Visa Applications
221. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time persons (details supplied) will be waiting for long-stay visa application in order that they can be reunited with their spouse... - Residency Permits
222. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps required for a person (details supplied) to regularise their status here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13474/16] - Crime Levels
226. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and detained in 2016 to date under section 23 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 which extended the... - Family Reunification Applications
227. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Judicial Oath Reform
229. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend the legislation on the taking of oaths and to make it fit for purpose. [13536/16] - Prisoner Data
230. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently serving custodial or suspended sentences for drug possession; and the total prison population. [13557/16] - Departmental Expenditure
231. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year savings for 2017 from reducing spending on professional fees by 10% in her Department; and if she will make a statement...
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